:22:02
For 25 years...
:22:04
I have conquered, spilt blood,
expanded the empire.
:22:09
Since I became Caesar,
I've known four years without war.
:22:13
Four years of peace in 20.
:22:15
And for what?
:22:24
I brought the sword.
Nothing more.
:22:29
Caesar, your life...
:22:30
Please.
Please don't call me that.
:22:33
Come. Please.
:22:36
Come sit.
:22:38
Let us talk together now...
:22:41
very simply... as men.
:22:45
Maximus, talk.
:22:52
Five thousand of my men are
out there in the freezing mud.
:22:55
Three thousand of them
are bloodied and cleaved.
:22:57
Two thousand will never
leave this place.
:22:59
I will not believe that they
fought and died for nothing.
:23:02
And what would you believe?
:23:04
They fought for you and for Rome.
:23:07
And what is Rome?
:23:11
I've seen much
of the rest of the world.
:23:13
It is brutal and cruel and dark.
Rome is the light.
:23:17
Yet you have
never been there.
:23:19
You have not seen
what it has become.
:23:21
I am dying, Maximus.
:23:24
When a man sees his end...
:23:26
he wants to know there was
some purpose to his life.
:23:30
How will the world speak my name
in years to come?
:23:33
Will I be known
as the philosopher?
:23:36
The warrior?
:23:37
The tyrant?
:23:40
Or will I be the emperor who
gave Rome back her true self?
:23:46
There was once a dream
that was Rome.
:23:48
You could only whisper it.
:23:51
Anything more than a whisper
and it would vanish...
:23:54
it was so fragile.
:23:56
And I fear that it will not
survive the winter.